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Thread: buildings22 Sep 2013, 11:23 AM Some players do just that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Spotting Scope on Elephants22 Sep 2013, 11:19 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Sep 2013, 03:25 AMwooof hahah whats your problem? i merely made a few suggestions to someone who was having trouble with elefants. i never claimed that i play soviets a lot and kill elefants all the time. i play mostly german and use the elefant doctrine almost exclusively. youve only fought the elefant 20 times and killed it 3-5 times. i have more experience with the unit than you. maybe not fighting against it, but i can still tell you what works and what doesnt from the german perspective. turtle wasnt offended by my response to him. im not sure why youre going after me so hard. Sorry Woof but it doesn't work that way. Using the unit is not the same as playing against. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Spotting Scope on Elephants22 Sep 2013, 01:55 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Sep 2013, 00:56 AMwooof you said it yourself, im ignorant. thats why im eagerly waiting for your pro tips. apparently flanking elefants is the wrong way to do it. indirect fire (which even relic suggests) is the wrong way to do it. exploiting its horrible targeting priorities and rotation speed is also wrong. lets hear your suggestions. You're the one telling everyone how it should be done. I would like to see it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Spotting Scope on Elephants22 Sep 2013, 00:33 AM Jump back to quoted post21 Sep 2013, 17:57 PMwooof are you sure youre talking about flanking and not circle strafing? i admit you cant circle strafe in an su85, but you can definitely flank. flanking does not require a turret. im not sure whats "ignorant" about not attacking the elefant head on, where its the strongest. i also wouldnt charge schrecks at an isu152 head on excepting them to win, but maybe thats just me. if my suggestions are so ignorant, im curious to hear what your strategy against elefants is. avoiding the elefant works on most maps (pripyat winter is the only one i can think of where it doesnt) but most people dont like that answer. I'm sure I am talking about flanking. Still waiting for replay from you to see how it's done. Should be easier now with recent IS-2 buff. Ohh, and Pripyat, Minsk pocket or Rzhev map would be preferable. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: buildings21 Sep 2013, 12:14 PM I agree that snipers are fine against buildings. It was just too easy before accuracy nerf. Deathtraps as said above. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Spotting Scope on Elephants21 Sep 2013, 12:11 PM Jump back to quoted post21 Sep 2013, 04:59 AMwooof i like how in balance discussions the su85 is always so easy to flank and never has support, but the elefant is unflankable and has unlimited support. stop "throwing everything you had at them", expecting to kill an elefant. use some tactics. weaken them up with indirect fire and call ins. dont charge head on just because you have a blob of su85s or t34s. you can also abuse the fact that elefants like to target infantry. get your tanks out of sight, move up 1 con. elefants will all turn to fire at him. move in behind. watch as the elefants slowly turn around and pathing screws them over. Stop being ignorant Woof. Flanking with a tank is a bit differnt than flanking with a tank destroyer. I wonder how many Elephants you've killed using your theories. Can you provide competetive replay to show it? I do know how to deal with Elephant theoreticly but theory and reality are different in this case. I've met Elephants in circa 20 games so far and I've managed to destroy whole 3-5 of them, not sure about the number, mostly due to opponent over extending itself. On some maps you can ignore it and move to the next point but there are some on which Elephant is a king of the hill. The unit itself is not that bad. It's the scope upgrade that needs to be look at. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Opinion on new IS-2?20 Sep 2013, 13:07 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Sep 2013, 12:18 PMCardboard Tank [...]That´s a huge exaggeration. T-34/76 couldn´t go through the Panthers frontal armor. The Panther however could go through the IS-2s frontal armor. Panther is an anti tank-vehicle. So is the SU-85. Su-85 can give Tigers a serious beating, so Panther should give the IS-2 a serious beating. Sounds like you are proposing that the Soviet heavy tank shouldn´t be countered by non doctrinal stuff (Panther), yet the German heavy tank should be countered by Soviet non-doctrinal stuff (Su-85). Why would I build a Panther? It sucks versus infantry. It can basically only counter T-34s and somewhat SU-85s. Yet a Panzer IV can do the job better for cost. What remains is that the Panther can somewhat fight versus IS-2s. Take that away and German T4 is a joke. But Panther can give IS-2 a serious beating so can SU-85 give serious beating to Tiger. What I'm trying to say is that in CoH2 IS-2 is in the same "vehicle class" as Tiger. If you want to compare this tank to any other German tank compare it with Tiger, not Panther. One is a bit better in AI role, the other against armour but that's irrelevant. Both are durable, slow-ish heavy hitters. And what's with German players hating Panthers so much? Panthers crap against infantry? I mean they not Ostwind or Brumbar efficiency but I still wouldn't charge a Panther with any infantry squad especially that AT nades usually tickles them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Opinion on new IS-2?20 Sep 2013, 12:07 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Sep 2013, 11:34 AMCardboard Tank If IS-2´s AT capabilities get buffed further then Panther´s AI has to be buffed too. Two SU-85 shut down any Tiger. Why shouldn´t a Panther somewhat counter the IS-2? Keep in mind that the Panther only wins with 5% health left. I also saw Panthers losing to IS-2s because the crew was shocked. Panzer IV and PaK constantly bounce now. The Panther is the only non doctrine vehicle that can handle the IS-2 - and that not even reliably. It's a heavy tank. You can deal with it with a Panther and some support but hard counter for it are Tiger and Elephant and Pak43 (?). IS-2 were design to hunt Tigers and I think Relic is trying to mimic this in the game. This could be the reason for recent Tiger nerf. Because of the cost and capability of IS-2 you should always compere it to a Tiger (I'm repeating myself here, sorry) Complaining that you can't deal with them with Panthers is like complaining that you can't deal with a PzV (Panther) using T-34/76 (without ramming the Panther, to be accurate) To cut the long story short: IS-2 = Panther - wrong. IS-2 = PzVI Tiger - correct In: COH2 Balance
Thread: buildings20 Sep 2013, 12:00 PM I have this feeling that you're still talking about City 17 and Victory/ Fuel point next to north spam point. You have to focus on other parts of the map and gain advantage this way. Shift to this point later, when you will have some decent firepower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: buildings20 Sep 2013, 08:49 AM Use mortars or ZiS on City 17. Collapse the buildings. In: COH2 Balance